People and Places

The reason for that is international artist Patrick Dougherty who is creating a willow stick sculpture on the grounds adjacent to the Visitor’s Center at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.

Dougherty, a resident of Chapel Hill, N.C., has created more than 200 installations around the globe. He arrived at Bernheim after completing an installation in France. Other locations include Denmark, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Scotland, Hawaii, Washington, New York and Japan.

In Kasigau, Kenya, there are no state-of-the art MRI machines standing at the ready for villagers who need a scan. The clinics have only a handful of rooms, stone walls and metal roofs. Patients’ illnesses are often agitated by or even caused by their environment and unsanitary conditions. Even doctors are hard to come by.

As a way of honoring the past, members of the St. Thomas cemetery committee decided it was time to restore the historical significance in its graveyard.

Troy Benningfield, owner of Clean Cut Lawn & Landscape, along with his son, Dakota, and contractor Jimmy Burton spent the afternoon March 14 revitalizing 40 tombstones in the older section of the graveyard. The stones they worked on had either sunk in the ground or broke in half due to wear and tear over the years at St. Thomas.

Sounds of the “Wedding March” echoed through the halls of Bardstown Primary School recently. Wait a minute! The Primary School? An unusual setting for a wedding, you say?

Well, this was a very special wedding staged by kindergarten teacher Kristen O’Bryan (aka, the Wedding Planner) to help her students remember that u always follows q in writing and together they make the /kw/ sound. This is the second year for the Wedding of Q and U at Bardstown Primary School.

Bardstown and Nelson County feature many sites that figure prominently in the local African-American historical record.

And while many of those sites are indeed well-known, says Pen Bogert, preservation administrator for the Bardstown Historical Review Board, many have sadly become overlooked footnotes, and some are still coming to light, begging for further research into the roles those locations played in writing a significant chapter in local history.